23. Kings will be your foster fathers,and their queens your nursing mothers.They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground;they will lick the dust at your feet.Then you will know that I am the Lord;those who hope in me will not be disappointed.’
24. Can plunder be taken from warriors,or captives be rescued from the fierce?
25. But this is what the Lord says:‘Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,and plunder retrieved from the fierce;I will contend with those who contend with you,and your children I will save.
26. I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.Then all mankind will knowthat I, the Lord, am your Saviour,your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.’